Keith Poulson

Keith Poulson

Birth : 1983-08-10, Fresno, California, USA

History

Born in Fresno, California, but moved around several times as a kid, living in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Poulson went Tascosa High School in Amarillo, Texas and to the University of Texas at Austin, where he received degrees in Radio-Television-Film and English. After graduating, Keith was hired on by the Austin Film Society, a non-profit founded by Richard Linklater.

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Keith Poulson

Movies

The Sweet East
A.D.
A high school senior from South Carolina gets her first glimpse of the wider world, picturesque cities, and woods of the Eastern seaboard on a class trip to Washington, D.C.
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Simon
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
Metal Myths: Ghost Pt. 2
L.H. Kernson
A mockumentary detailing the history of the Swedish rock band Ghost.
Project Space 13
Nate
The movie follows Nate, an emerging performance artist, who finally gets a coveted show at a Manhattan gallery, but right when he begins his provocative piece, the entire city shuts down for COVID-19. Unswayed, he locks himself in the white cube space to continue his performance for an audience of none. As tensions flare outside, the gallery hires private security to watch over him and his art. Over the course of one night, two armed guards and Nate argue about everything, reveal their darkest secrets, and prepare for the worst.
PVT Chat
Duke
Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC. After the death of his roommate, he becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy NYC Chinatown street.
We Are
Doug
When Doug - a hapless employee at a VR startup - is forced to work the night shift, he becomes fast friends with a squatting vagrant named Stick. Increasingly belittled by his domineering wife, Vera, and the company's reckless owner, Vikas, Doug falls under Stick's charming spell over the course of several delirious nights. As the two of them bond over the nature of reality, virtual and otherwise, Stick begins empowering Doug to take back control of his life...but to what end?
Victor in Paradise
Crook
A comic and melancholic take on the struggling artist, shot on 35mm.
I Blame Society
Keith
A struggling filmmaker senses her peers are losing faith in her ability to succeed, so she decides to prove herself by finishing her last abandoned film and committing the perfect murder.
The Knot
Left home alone for the weekend, two sisters navigate their strained rivalry amid the horrors of adolescent sexuality.
Bennifer
Jed
Jed’s family isn’t how he remembered it.
Lost Holiday
Sam
Margaret Rockland is as depressed as the ubiquitous Christmas carols are cheerful when she returns to the Washington DC suburb of her childhood for a reunion. The wild bunch she grew up with have settled into respectable family life. Adding insult to injury, her former boyfriend is engaged to the most bourgeois blonde on the East Coast. Margaret reacts by diving into a drinking and drugs marathon. With two remaining fellow souls, she roams the suburban no man’s land and ends up in an incomparable adventure with kidnapping, extortion, misunderstandings and clumsy violence as basic ingredients.
Her Smell
Roy
A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Frances Ferguson
Nick
Frances Ferguson, the eponymous character at the center of Bob Byington’s new film, is discontent. Like a lot of us, she does a bit of “acting out” and pays the price —an arrest, a trial, incarceration. And then a new identity, one that’s not terribly comfortable. Nick Offerman narrates this deviant comedy, based on actual events.
Jobe'z World
Frank
A rollerblading drug dealer runs into trouble when one of his customers dies.
Chained for Life
An Asshole
A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
The Great Pretender
Chris
The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect dramatically.
Notes on an Appearance
Todd
A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks.
Golden Exits
Peter
An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
Cheer Up Baby
New York City present day. Anna is a 21-year old dance major in college. She takes the train home after a day of dance class and babysitting. She falls asleep on the train and wakes up to a man holding her hands. He whispers something to her she does not want to hear. The film follows Anna for the next two days. She tries to go about her life but grapples with the haunting memory of the stranger from the train. The city acts as the cacophonous landscape in which Anna develops a new perspective, one where she finds herself both suffocated and free.
Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone
Producer
Dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance lounge about, pass gas, and periodically break into wondrously strange dance routines. Along the way, they face outer space interludes, a serious consideration of doctor boners, and a 90s-style girl group meltdown.
Unpresidented
Jay
A New Yorker comes to regret betting on the 2016 election.
Little Sister
Jacob Lunsford
After returning to her childhood home, young nun Colleen finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war.
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
Senior Craig (voice)
Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely-distributed but little-read school newspaper, edited by their friend Verti. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys' friendship, Dash learns of a cover-up by the administration that puts the entire student body in danger.
Hermia & Helena
Lukas
Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.
Dramatic Relationships
Scenes from the working life of a male director: Defa sophisticatedly lampoons masculinity in filmmaking with this sly, surprising meta-movie. (Courtesy of Film Society of Lincoln Center.)
Dogwalker
A dark-comedy adventure of a young dog walker, after the unexpected death of one of her favorite clients.
Mercury Plains
Naylor
A troubled man runs away to Mexico and is recruited to join a paramilitary group of teens fighting the drug cartels. He proves himself to the group, but questions their motive.
Lace Crater
Keith
Opting to sleep in the allegedly-haunted guest house while spending a weekend in the Hamptons with friends, Ruth, a lonely young woman in her mid-twenties who's had too much to drink, strikes up a conversation that leads to a sexual encounter with Michael, a burlap-draped ghost that casually appears before her. Through this inter-paranormal relation, Ruth contracts an STD with alarming effects.
Queen of Earth
Keith
Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.
Bad at Dancing
Matt
A perpetual third wheel and awkward outsider, Joanna increasingly inserts herself into the relationship of her more charismatic roommate Isabel. The two women test each other's sexual and emotional boundaries in this surreal manifestation of jealous rivalry.
Stinking Heaven
Jim
A black as tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in '90s suburban New Jersey.
High and Dry
Clark
A privileged photographer learns that she needs to cry genuine, cathartic tears in order to keep from going blind, a pursuit which alienates and upsets those around her including her musician boyfriend who is grappling with depression.
Listen Up Philip
Josh
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.
The Sixth Year
Chris (fifth segment)
The Sixth Year is an art world drama series in five episodes, which re-interprets the format of the TV series. Set in the New York art world, it stages the backstage and theatricalizes the social interactions and power games, the aspirations, passions, and everyday realities of the field. The screenplay is based on interviews with artists, curators, gallerists, collectors, and art advisors, whose opinions, anecdotes, and gossip it abstracts and extrapolates into a fictional narrative.
Hellaware
Nate
Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows
The Sun Thief
Sound Mixer
On the day before leaving New York for graduate school in a Iowa, a writer's plan to spend a romantic day at Rockaway Beach with a woman he's secretly dating is disrupted by an oddball surfer.
Red Flag
Phil
Writer/director/star Alex Karpovsky, a familiar face to indie filmgoers, reveals his sterling comic chops in this close-to-the-bone comedy. Teasing the line between fiction and reality, he plays an indie filmmaker named Alex Karpovsky who, dumped by a longtime girlfriend fed up with his refusal to marry, takes to the road with a reluctant old pal for a misbegotten mini tour screening his movie on college campuses and independent cinemas.
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Max
Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at weddings, funerals, hospitals, eateries, divorce courts and the tool shed. A deadpan fable about time sneaking up on and swerving right around us.
The Color Wheel
Norton's Sidekick
JR has broken up with her professor. She enlists her nervous and obnoxious younger brother Colin to take a short road trip in order to help move out her belongings. They bicker and fight, with one another and pretty much anybody they encounter, before being brought to a place of togetherness and understanding as a result of being pushed away by everybody in their lives except one another.
Harmony and Me
Wes
Lyricist Harmony insists on wallowing in misery eons after being unceremoniously dumped by his girlfriend. While the members of Harmony's family are long over his antics, that doesn't stop him from milking his heartbreak and telling his tale of woe to anyone who will listen.
RSO: Registered Sex Offender
Younger Brother
After serving three long years in prison, a registered sex offender returns to civilization, only to find an environment that's completely uncivilized. At the top of his list is finding a job — and getting his vindictive girlfriend to put out again.
The Life of David Gale
College Student / Activist (uncredited)
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.